Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal A. R. Currell, Middlesex Regiment
1914-15 Star (4689 L. Cpl. A. R. Currell. Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (G.4689 L. Cpl. A. R. Currell. 13. Middx. Regt.) all somewhat later issues, lacquered, very fine

Pair: Private R. E. Hall, Army Service Corps, late British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John
1914-15 Star (R. E. Hall. B.R.C. & St. J.J.); British War Medal 1914-20 (M2-121681 Pte. R. E. Hall. A.S.C.) very fine

Pair: H. Buckingham, Mercantile Marine
British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (H. Buckingham) good very fine

Pair: Private W. J. Forsbrey, Royal Air Force
British War and Victory Medals (82058. Pte.1. W. J. Forsbrey. R.A.F.) nearly extremely fine (9) £100-£140

Arthur Reginald Currell was born at Romford, Essex, on 15 July 1894 and attested for the Middlesex Regiment on 9 September 1914. He served with the 13th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 September 1915, including at Delville Wood during the Somme campaign, and was three times admitted to hospital. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 29 August 1917, and then to the Royal Air Force. He died in 1953.

W. J. Forsbrey joined the Royal Flying Corps in May 1917.

Sold with a Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve cap badge; and a Territorial Army Nursing Service lapel badge.